Jeremy Lybarger is a writer and editor based in Chicago. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Artforum, The New Republic, Art in America, and many other outlets.

He received a 2025 Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation and was a finalist for the 2025 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from Washington Monthly, as well as a finalist for the 2024 and 2021 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. His piece about Walt Whitman was listed as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2020.

He is currently a senior editor at Poetry magazine. His forthcoming book, Midnight Tremor, about the late artist Roger Brown, was supported by a 2024 individual project grant from the Graham Foundation and a 2024 work-in-progress grant from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation.

Contact him at jklybarger [at] gmail [dot] com.